Dress of Marie de Medici

  The simple white cotton drawers are made according to the extant original deposited in Westminster Abbey intended for the effigy of English Queen Elizabeth I st (c 1603). The pattern was published by J.Arnold in Costume (vol. 41, 2007, The ‘pair of straight bodies’ and ‘a pair of drawers’ dating from 1603 which Clothe the Effigy of Queen Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.)
  Photo was taken by Ing. Premysl Polasek in Tovacov castle.